Sentences with phrase «soaring housing values»

We've witnessed an education - spending bubble over the past two decades, as first a booming economy and then soaring housing values poured tons of dollars into public - school budgets.

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For too many, the story is like this... «the economy is booming and the value of my house is soaring so why save and worry about debt...» «oh no, the economy is in the crapper, who can save and pay off debt in a time like this...»

Bankruptcies soared 32 % in 2009 — A «perfect storm» of unemployment and plunging house values sends filings up to highest level since a 2005 reform law went into effect.

I was once told, years ago, that I «couldn't build a small house» because the neighbors (who never came forth and were never named) would object; that in an area of 250K overpriced, oversized, lawyer foyer houses, my little house would «reduce property values»; this would be code for «we can't charge you enough for property taxes...» Forget that I owned the land, forget that we've been sold a line about «freedom» complete with soaring rhetoric and waving flags our whole lives, buy a piece of land and want to build something on it that isn't «code», isn't the «norm» and all of a sudden you're a hippy rebel whacko.

Property values skyrocket, house prices soar, and affordable housing availability evaporates.

Wall Street buyers are acquiring the debt after foreclosure starts dropped this year to the lowest level since 2006 and house values soared in California, Phoenix and other markets hard - hit by the real estate crash.